The István Markó Interview: Possibly the Best Thing You Will Ever Read on Global Warming(T)

breitbart.com ^ | 10/28/2017 | James Delingpole

[rktman]

Maybe the biggest of all the lies put out by the global warming scaremongers is that the science is on their side. No it isn’t. And if you’re in any doubt at all you should read this interview with the brilliant scientist István Markó. It tells you all you need to know about the science of global warming.

Dr. Markó, who sadly died earlier this year aged only 61, was a professor and researcher in organic chemistry at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium’s largest French-speaking university. More importantly for the purposes of this interview, he was one of the world’s most outspoken and well-informed climate skeptics, who contributed to several articles on the subject for Breitbart News.

Before he died, he gave an extensive interview to the French journalist Grégoire Canlorbe. Here are highlights of the English translation. As you’ll see, he doesn’t pull his punches.

[rktman]

Sorry it's the brietbart site. I searched for another link but to no avail. In any case, did Dr. Marko pass away under suspicious circumstances? Just a question. Sadly, his thoughts will be buried by the msm. Good thing we got a forum huh? Deniers unite!

[Fungi]

Here is the complete interview: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/28/information-interview-with-istvan-marko/

[rktman]

Thanks. I forgot to check WUWT.

[Vendome]

Great article...

[rktman]

Check #2 above for an alternate link to the whole interview.

[GOPJ]

Over the last 12,000 years, what we have witnessed is an oscillation between warm and cold periods, thus periods with rising and declining sea levels. Incontestably, sea and ocean levels have been on the rise since the end of the Little Ice Age that took place approximately from the beginning of the 14th century until the end of the 19th century.

At the end of that period, global temperatures started to rise. That being said, the recorded rise is 0.8 degrees Celsius and is, therefore, nothing extraordinary.

If the temperature goes up, ocean water obviously dilates and some glaciers recede. This is something glaciers have always done, and not a specificity of our time.

What did this good man die of? Sixty one is a young death...

[GOPJ]

Over the last 12,000 years, what we have witnessed is an oscillation between warm and cold periods, thus periods with rising and declining sea levels. Incontestably, sea and ocean levels have been on the rise since the end of the Little Ice Age that took place approximately from the beginning of the 14th century until the end of the 19th century.

At the end of that period, global temperatures started to rise. That being said, the recorded rise is 0.8 degrees Celsius and is, therefore, nothing extraordinary.

If the temperature goes up, ocean water obviously dilates and some glaciers recede. This is something glaciers have always done, and not a specificity of our time.

What did this good man die of? Sixty-one is a young death...

[Vendome]

Thnx

Loads of good thinking.

My current take away and observation coincides with the author:

I do not contend that China is the paradise of freedom: all I want to point out is that China is evolving towards freedom and that it respects science, while in the West, we are evolving towards communism, the atrophy of freedom of expression

The preamble to the constitution and Bill of Rights are currently not universal concepts of our present society but, rather, convient tools of leverage for social justice willfully ignoring liberty and true equality....

And now reading further, this most excellent article.

[Vendome]

And the money shot:
Warren Buffet, who owns one of the largest wind farms in Iowa, said it without embarrassment: “On wind power, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. This is the only reason to build them. They do not make sense without the tax credit.”

Thnx again.

Freepers is the bestest to ferret out truth and contrivance

[rktman]

Well, tax credits and subsidies.

[Vendome]

Many persons, generally those coming from the former Eastern Bloc, let themselves be seduced by the idea that the resolution of our environmental problems would be that of global governance.

In many respects, ecologism is also the communism of the 21st century. In the same way as Islam, it occupies the place left vacant by the decline of Marxism-Leninism.

I do not know if a convergence of struggles between Islamists and ecologists will actually take shape; however, I note that we already have the equivalent, on a smaller scale, of the global ecological caliphate.

I am thinking of the European Union, which gives us a foretaste of the bureaucratic, global, and totalitarian governance that the United Nations manifestly endeavors to establish.

***Duh Pope...”

[Vendome]

Finished the article.

Fan...fuckin-tastic

In his picture, however, he could be mistaken for a Castro brother ...

LOL

[Fungi]

His very pertinent and relevant concluding remarks:

Grégoire Canlorbe: Thank you for your time. Would you like to add a thing or two?

István Markó: I would like to thank you for the relevance of your questions. I was recently in Santa Barbara, California, where I had the opportunity to eat with plates and cutlery made of corn, which are thus biodegradable. This is an initiative that I welcome, and that has nothing to do with the vain, costly, and spiritually lethal struggle against CO2emissions. If there is one final message I would like to convey, it is that we have to be concerned about the real ecological problems — noxious pollutants, unmanaged waste, untreated human sewage. We have to cease letting ourselves be manipulated by causes that purport to be good for our planet, but that are simply pretexts for enslaving and tying up humanity.

God knows there are abominable things happening to our planet! Think about the pollution of the oceans and the “seventh continent;” think about the extinction of some marine species like codfish, which is the victim not only of overfishing, but of the proliferation of seals whose hunting has been prohibited. We must preserve our environment, it goes without saying. We must also exercise our critical mind and identify the real problems, otherwise our good feelings for ‘saving the planet’ are only arrogant, hypocritical, and stupid tears.

The agreement of the Paris COP 21 was not signed to save the planet and to prevent us from roasting due to an imaginary temperature increase of +2°C. Behind all that masquerade is hidden, as always, the ugly face of power, greed, and profit. All the industrialists who are in favor of that commitment, which will ruin Europe and immensely impoverish its citizens, do so for the good reason they find in it a huge and easy source of income. As for NGOs, when they are not simply motivated by greed, their motive consists in a resolutely Malthusian ideology. Their object is to return the world to a very small population, on the order of a few hundred million people. To do so, they impoverish the world, remove the power of fossil fuel energies, and thus ensure that the number of deaths increases.

[smileyface]

bump for later...

[Robert DeLong]

Well worth the read. Thanks.

[TigersEye]

In his picture, however, he could be mistaken for a Castro brother ...

I'm not seeing it.

[Chickensoup]

What the hell is wrong with linking to Breitbart??

Is FR on another darned witch-hunt?

Haven’t we alienated enough of the conservatives thus splintering the movement even further.

There was a time that FR was an embryonic political party.

It is beginning to seem like the porch of an old folks home.

[rktman]

Some have ad issues.

[Chickensoup]

ad issues??

[rktman]

LOL! I’ve had some FReepers complain about going to the breitbart site because the seem to get a lot of ads popping up. I don’t have a problem. Guess you may not either. Nothing against breitbart.